ABSTRACT
Spurgeon offered basically four arguments in defense of his conservative views. First, the validity of his faith was proven by his own experience. This highly personal argument was reinforced by Spurgeon's own success which so strongly appealed to the cult of the self-made roan. Second, Spurgeon argued that his theology was the theology of the Puritans, and represented the best tradition of the English religious experience. Third, in sharp contrast to the honest English manliness of his faith, the teachers of modern thought were offering an effeminate, watered-down gospel which was, moreover, foreign in its very origins. Finally, his views, while simple and dogmatic, were easily comprehended by those willing to make the leap across logic to faith. He offered dogmatic certainty while his opponents were only able to offer the hypotheses of science; and science, by its very nature, admits no final truth.
